Automobile Highwayman Bandit Robs Party on Cherry Street
Harold Lebo and Harold Cripe were robbed by a masked attacker who halted their auto near Hoquiam. The bandit took $5 from Lebo and $30 plus a watch from Cripe, kept the ladies' valuables, and left after socializing with a Scandinavian accent. Police description notes height about 5 feet 9 inches, age about 35, with an Officer's Special revolver. The party reported to the police and the thief fled toward the alley.
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Hoquiam
Harold Cripe
Harold Lebo
FE. M. Smith
Wilda
Mabel
Cripe
Cherry Street
Jeffries Street
Lebo
Third Street
Heron
Heron Street
Seattle
Tax Dodging Exposed In Chehalis County Valuations
The Herald reports a broad tax protest urging organized taxpayer leagues to expose rampant tax dodging by timber firms led by Weyerhaeuser. It cites 1910 1912 roll changes in Township 21 7 and compares sections 1 5 7 9 10 11 15 17 19 21 23 27 33 showing large assessment increases and a $100 000 plus tax dodge in one township.
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the Herald
Chehalis
Wilson
Taxpayers League
League
Aberdeen
Hoquiam
Herald
Aberdeen World
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co
Tornow
Simpson Logging Co
Weyerhaeuser Company
Simpson Co
Chehalis County
Logging Camp Fatality Near Wishkah River
E Palmer, a rigging slinger for Grays Harbor Logging Co at Wishkah, was instantly killed Saturday when a falling snag struck him. His body went to Whiteside's parlors and was sent to Centralia to join his mother and two brothers. He leaves a wife in Tacoma.
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Vv. E. Palmer
Grays Harbor
Wishkah
Palmer
Whiteside
Centralia
Tacoma
Careless Campers Face Prosecution in Olympic Forest
Olympia reports Supervisor S F P Lovejoy warns campers who abandon fires will be prosecuted. A Clallam county offender was fined 10 dollars plus costs for a short fire lapse. Four Seattle residents await arrest for an Elwha river fire on July 16, with warrants out for others at Lake Cushman and Quinsault country fires.
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Olympia
S. F P. Lovejoy
Olympic Forest Reserve
Clallam County
Seattle
Elwha
Lake Cushman
Quinsault
Aberdeen aims to form Woodrow Wilson club
A movement seeks to organize a Woodrow Wilson club in Aberdeen. A meeting will be called in the city council room next Friday evening for that purpose, with further notice to follow.
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Wilson Club
Woodrow Wilson Club
Aberdeen
State Land Board to Sell School Lands in September
The state land board plans a September sale of school lands scattered across sections of the state including tide shore timber and agricultural parcels. About 200 acres in Aberdeen may also be sold as five acre tracts if platted. Swampy areas lead to subdivision into five acre parcels with possible platted land in Sunnyside and Prosser.
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Aberdeen
Olympia
State Land Board
Sunnyside
Prosser
Pearsall Named U S Court Commissioner to Fill Hoquiam Vacancy
Attorney Jan Pearsall has been appointed U S Court Commissioner by Judge Cushman to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Seth Warren in Hoquiam.
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Jan Pearsall
U. S
Cushman
Seth Warren
Hoquiam
Works defies California progressives and stays a Republican
Senator Works in a Washington dispatch rejects resigning from the Republican party while criticizing progressives aligned with Roosevelt. He warns the new party rests on Roosevelt, not principles, and urges progressives to back the Democratic ticket to rebuke Taft’s nomination. Rudolph Spreckles in San Francisco supports Wilson and opposes the California progressives who demand Works quit.
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Washington, D. C
Senator Works
California
Taft
San Francisco
Rudolph Spreckles
Senator LaFollette
Woodrow Wilson
Baltimore
Wallace
Meyer Lissner
United States
John D. Works
Spreckles
Southern Pacific
North Dakota Banker Adams Visits Coast and Yellowstone
R S Adams of Lisbon North Dakota president of the First National Bank and head of the state bankers association travels with his daughter Marie. They journey by Canadian Pacific visiting Winnipeg Banff Vancouver and coastal resorts Cohasset and Pacific beaches. They plan a Yellowstone visit on return and will see a son and brother in Chadron Nebraska.
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R. S. Adams
Lisbon
North Dakota
First National Bank
That Place
North Dakota State Bankers’ Association
Marie
J. B. Kinne
Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg
Banff
Laggon
Vancouver
Cohasset
Pacific
Yellowstone Park
Chadron, Neb
Miss Adams
Avalon Ready for Launching at Grays Harbor Yard
Hoquiam July 19 early next week the steam schooner Avalon built for Hart Wood Lumber will slide from Matthews shipyards. It will carry about 1 000 000 feet of lumber with 27 passengers and a 750 tonnage.
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Hoquiam
Avalon
Hart-Wood Lumber Company
Matthews
San Francisco
Siskiyou
E. K. Wood Lumber Company
Matthews Yards
Charles H. Higgins
Grays Harbor
Higgins
Fear Turnow Kills Again Triggers Search in Washington
James Stevenson, a Puyallup lumberman, heads from Tacoma to Shelton to search for his missing brother John Turnow believed involved with the Page Lumber Company. John last spoke from Chehalis and planned timber cruising toward Shelton and the Quinsault reservation before vanishing. Authorities report John Turnow remains at large in the mountains with a killing record of four to five.
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Tacoma
John
John Turnow
Olympic Mountain
James Stevenson
Puyallup
Shelton
Page Lumber Company
Page Company
Quinsault Reservation
John Stevenson
Chehalis
War Game Under Way As Blues Expect Seattle Landing
Company G of the Second Regiment N G W leaves Aberdeen for Centralia to join large Pacific Coast maneuvers. The Reds aim to land at Grays Harbor and push toward Seattle while the Blues prepare to block and neutralize them. Western Washington dairy and poultry expert H L Blanchard will lecture at Satsop, and St Marys church hosts a lawn fete benefiting the church with a musical program tomorrow night.
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Army of Blues
Centralia
Harry A. Comeau
Aberdeen
Northern Pacific
Pacific Coast
The
Blues
Seattle
Puget Sound
L. W. V. Kennon
Montesano
Marion P. Maus
Maj
A. S. Fleming
Lieut. Whitley
Kennon
Grays Harbor
H. L. Blanchard
Western Washington
Puyallup
Satsop
Grange Hall
Blanchard
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
B. F. Burgess
North H_ street
Lone Bandit Holds Up Auto Near Aberdeen
Bowman of Portland and J Fennesbeck of San Francisco were robbed by a lone highwayman near the east end of the elevated roadway as they travelled in a White Automobile company vehicle. The thief, nervous and new at crime, demanded money. Bowman took $8 from Fennesbeck and handed it over. Clarence Cook witnessed the incident, causing the robber to flee. Guy L Rogers was arrested but released later with no evidence tying him to the crime.
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Rolt. Bowman
Portland
J. Fennesbeck
San Francisco
White Automobile Company
Aberdeen
Bowman
Fennesbeck
Montesano
Clarence Cook
Wishkah Boom Company
Cook
K. ¥. Church
Guy L. Rogers
Rogers
Cour d’Alene
Idaho
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